incumbent
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Definitions ofincumbent
- The current holder of an office, such as ecclesiastical benefice or an elected office.
- A holder of a position as supplier to a market or market segment that allows the holder to earn above-normal profits.
- Imposed on someone as an obligation, especially due to one's office.
Example: "Proper behavior is incumbent on all holders of positions of trust."
- Lying; resting; reclining; recumbent.
- Prevalent, prevailing, predominant.
- Resting on something else; in botany, said of anthers when lying on the inner side of the filament, or of cotyledons when the radicle lies against the back of one of them.
- Bent downwards so that the ends touch, or rest on, something else.
Example: "the incumbent toe of a bird"
- Being the current holder of an office or a title.
Example: "If the incumbent senator dies, he is replaced by a person appointed by the governor."
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